Improvement in apparatus for pumping ships



AC. HUXFORID.

APPARATUS FOR IUMPING SHIPS, 84c.

No.173,544 Iatented Feb. 15, 1876.

ATTBBNEYS.

. 1 N-PETERS, PHOTO'LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

UNIT D STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

. CHARLES 'HUXF-ORD, 0F EDGARTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR PUMPING SHIPS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [73,544, dated February15, 1876; application filed December 4, 1b75.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GHARLEs-HUXFORD,

of Edgartown, Marthas Vineyard, in the county of Dukes and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Power for Ships Pumps,of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a kind of paddle- Wheel mounted on a float anddragging astern of the ship, so as to berevolved by the water, and-having an endless rope fitted around it, and around a pulley on theship, in such man ner that the rope is made to work the pump, and thussave the working of it by hand in ships not having steam-power.

. Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a portion of a shipand the said power apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the paddle-wheel, and B a float, on which it is to becarried on the surworking over the wheel at the middle, where it has agroove, E,therefor; and F, the pulley on the ship, to be turned by.therope for working the pump. H represents guide-pulleys for conducting therope from the wheel The combination, with wheel A, supported on a float,B, and towed by theships cable 0,

of an endless rope, D, working'in a groove,

E, of wheel, over a float-pulley, H, and over a ships pulley, F, allarranged as and for the purpose specified.

. CHAS. HUXFORD. Witnesses:

'l. B. MOSHER,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

